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Results Page Overview

After the execution of a search, the results page opens up from the right side of the search page. Here, you can find all the documents that comply with your search criteria. The application offers you a number of functionalities to review and manage your results as you prefer. 

 

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Results list action buttons. 
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Results page view options.
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Click in the checkbox to select/unselect a document. You can select documents to execute a results list action.
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To open a document in the document view, click on the (underlined) publication number or title of the document. For more information on. See your search terms highlighted in the title, abstract, claims, and descriptions columns.
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Add annotations to a document. 
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Open the original PDF document in a new browser window.
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Enter your preferred results list page number in the text box, and press Enter. Alternatively, click on the preferred page number to jump to that page.

 

Results List Actions

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Save your results in your existing or newly created user folders for future reference after selecting them from the results list.
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Download your results in a number of file formats individually or in batches after selecting them from the results list.
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Export to PatentSight® (for subscribers only). PatentSight® evaluates all the selected documents from the results list to separate high-value patents from low-value ones, does competitor portfolio analysis, and/or identifies opportunities and threats. Up to 50.000 documents can be included in a single export file. When you select this option, the application will ask you to select the PatentSight® server that is closest to your location to ensure you will connect to the correct server
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See the number of documents you have already selected from the results list.

Results Page View Options

You can choose your preferred arrangement of your results after running a search.

  1. Select the Publications view to see individual documents in your results list. Select the Families view to see only one representative publication from each family (patent family and family type). Under Preferences, you can select your preferred family type, and add further customization.
  2. Select your preferred view mode from the
    drop-down: Columns, Rows, or Dynamic Grid.
  3. See the graphical filters. You can filter on documents from different authorities and assignees in your results list by selecting a specific graph element.
  4. To sort your results, click on the drop-down list, and select your preferred option. In the Publications view, you can sort them based on application date, application number, publication date, publication number, priority date, priority number, or relevance. In the Families view, you can sort them based on
    application date or priority date.
  5. Click on the gear icon to change your current view mode settings. For example, if you have selected the Columns view mode, the corresponding settings panel will open when you click on the gear icon.

 

Note:
The amount of results that can be displayed is limited to 10.000, in the rare occasion more results are valid additional search criteria must be added to narrow down the search. Although only the first 10.000 records are displayed additional documents are not lost. Narrowing down the search will always use the full results set not just the top 10.000 displayed. Example: a search on AC:(JP) will give you all documents in the database produced by the Japanese authority, as there are over 24 million documents it is unrealistic to view them one by one. The amount of results per page is controlled via the User Preferences. When you select a maximum number of records per page the scrolling is turned off, instead
a navigation bar appears to allow you to browse through the results.
Note:

Document relevance is calculated based on:

  • keyword occurrence per document - thirteen occurrences are more relevant than one.
  • occurrence in the whole document set - a keyword occurring in 20.000 documents is less
    relevant than a keyword occurring in only four documents.
  • document length - one occurrence in a short document can be equally relevant as five
    occurrences in a long document.
  • section of the document - a keyword in a title will be more relevant than a keyword in a
    description

The result list is sorted according a weighted total score of all of these. Therefore it is not
possible to fully predict the relevance sorting order beforehand. Boosting a keyword helps,
but expanding and/or filtering your query helps even more.

Results List View Modes and View Settings

On the view settings panel of the results page, you can select your preferred options for displaying
your search results list, e.g., the displayed result fields, or the number of displayed documents per
page.

Setting Options Columns View Settings Panel
Select/deselect fields by clicking in the box in
front, to display them in your results list. Drag
and drop fields to change their order.
You can choose from the following fields:
  • Publication number (default, not optional)
  • Publication date
  • Title
  • Abstract
  • Claim 1
  • Claims count
  • Application number
  • Application date
  • Priority number
  • Priority date
  • Legal status
  • Litigation/Opposition
  • Inventors
  • Current assignee (standardized)
  • Original assignee (standardized)
  • Ultimate owner
  • IPC
  • CPC
  • US Class
  • FI
  • F-terms
  • Locarno
  • Backward citations count
  • Forward citations count
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Clipped image

Display keyword occurrence - Switch on the
toggle to see where and how often your search
query terms occur in your results list.

Results per page - Select the number of results
displayed per page. The option All will show all
your results in one page and allows infinite scrolling.
Click Apply to apply your selection.

Setting Options

Select/deselect fields by clicking in the box in
front, to display them in your results list. Drag
and drop fields to change their order.
You can choose from the following fields:

  • Number of claims
  • Number of forward citations
  • Number of backward citatons
  • Application number and date
  • Priority number and date
  • Original assignee (standardized)
  • Current assignee (standardized)
  • Inventor
  • Ultimate owner
  • IPC
  • CPC
  • US Class
  • FI
  • F-terms
  • Locarno
  • Abstract
  • Claim 1
  • All images
  • Clipped image

Display keyword occurrence - Switch on the
toggle to see where and how often your search
query terms occur in your results list.


Results per page - Select the number of results
displayed per page. The option All will show all
your results in one page and allows infinite scrolling.


Click Apply to apply your selection.

 

 

 

 

Rows View Settings Panel

Setting Options

In the grid view, the following result fields can be displayed for your results: Publication number, Publication date, Title, Ultimate Owner, Abstract, and Clipped image (if available). 
Click on the Change grid option and select as
many tiles as the number of document you want to display at the same time.

Caution: The information shown will be
dynamically adapted to your screen. The
clipped image will always be visible, the
text elements might not be displayed in
a 5x5 grid. Select the grid size suitable
for your screen resolution.

Dynamic Grid View Settings

 

 

 

Display Results Together with Search Page or Document View

The combined search page and results page display setting allows you to review your results
while keeping the used search query in sight. Alternatively, expand the results list to full size, if you
need more space to display your results. In this case, the search page will not be closed, but reduced to a narrow bar on the left side of the screen. 

The combined results page and (simple or side-by-side) document view display setting allows you to review the chosen document while keeping the results list in sight.

 

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